Tuesday, February 8, 2011

Ponder Food...the best in the world

Moving to the more specific title, Ponder Food as Love, prompted a new wave of research into a sweeter side of our quest. Began with New Yorker's Notes of a Gastronome, an image search for photographs from Albert Adria's elBullimenu and ended with an historical trifle.

elBulli__Flowers

elBulli-caramel

elBulli__Foam

The high art of high-tech cuisine or the frivolity of a decadent, self-absorbed culture?

What would an art historian say? Since Warhol, we've come to honor art that criticizes what is most hateful about humanity (materialism, decadence, self-interest, celebrity-worship and mortality). Rococo, may have emerged from a comparatively similar level of wealth and decadence, but it endures. Is unselfconscious self-absorbtion, like youth, is too delightful to pass up?

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Notebook - Ponder Food is an archive and virtual artists’ journal which accompanies the photographic projectsPonder Food As Love and Processed Views. As part of their photographic collaboration, Barbara Ciurej and Lindsay Lochman use this space for their research notes, inspiration and correspondence as they explore complex individual and societal relationships to food. You are invited to view their website, www.ciurejlochmanphoto.com.